Two-time Tony winner Patti LuPone, who recently completed a limited, acclaimed Broadway engagement at the Ethel Barrymore in An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, takes part in the Esther B. O'Keeffe Speaker Series Jan. 24 at the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium in Florida.

Patti LuPone
Photo by Ethan Hill

Patti LuPone: An 11 O'Clock Life will be presented at the Palm Beach venue at 3 PM.

LuPone, according to her spokesperson, will discuss her award-winning "career and her life in the theatre."

For her performance as Rose in the recent revival of Gypsy at the St. James Theatre, Patti LuPone won the Tony Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award. A Tony Award winner for her work in Evita, LuPone also earned an Olivier Award for her performances in the West End productions of Les Misérables and The Cradle Will Rock. Her other theatrical credits include Company, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Sunset Boulevard, Anything Goes, Oliver!, Working, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class and Pal Joey. LuPone also headlined two solo Broadway concerts, Patti LuPone On Broadway and Matters of the Heart, and received glowing notices for her performance as Mrs. Lovett in the Lincoln Center concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and a Tony nomination for her performance in the recent revival of that Sondheim work. She was seen in the Kennedy Center's staging of Marc Blitzstein's Regina and joined Audra McDonald for Los Angeles Opera's production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny. She was also seen as Rose in a Ravinia Festival concert run of Gypsy. Her screen and recording credits are numerous. LuPone is also scheduled to return to Broadway next season in the new David Mamet play The Anarchist.

Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium is located at 2 Four Arts Plaza in Palm Beach, FL. For tickets call (561) 655-7226.